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...summer-fall Federal Reserve tightness would cripple any chance for a strong advance in 1972. In their view, the board's shift came in the nick of time-or perhaps not quite. Some expect the lag effect of the wide 1971 swings in money-supply growth to cause irregular wobbles in the economy this year...
...Slightly Irregular Fire Engine by Donald Barthelme. Unpaged. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $4.95. Fantasist Barthelme goes through his own looking glass and comes back with a young Alice named Mathilda, some elegant chatter, "a hithering thithering Djinn," and a Chinese lunch that includes sweet and sour ice cream. Most of the pictures-cutouts culled from Victorian-style engravings -are too static for children, though the storm scene (from Gustave Doré's illustrations for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner) is splendid...
...said that the apparent behavior of Phobos in orbit meant that it could be hollow. That in turn suggested to Shklovskii that the moonlet might be an artificial satellite, lofted into orbit by a long-extinct Martian civilization. Instead, Mariner's photos have revealed that both moonlets are irregular-shaped hunks of rock, pockmarked with craters...
...light waves of a single frequency (ordinary sunlight is composed of many different frequencies). Then he aimed the beam at an object placed in front of a photographic plate. The unobstructed part of the light beam hit the plate directly. Light waves reflected from the object's irregular surface also reached the photographic plate. But because they had bounced off different parts of the object, they arrived at the plate out of phase in varying degrees with the original unreflected beam-that is, the crests and troughs of the reflected light waves no longer matched up with those...
...abide as President. Now as to the election, I say clearly, because it has a very particular character, it's an election of confidence or noconfidence. The way for people to express their will, if they do not like me, is to make the ticket illegal and irregular...